It is 1910. Arthur loathes school, is probably dyslexic and longs to be outside. So he bunks off, spending the time outside like his gamekeeper father. He plans to be a gamekeeper and follows Dad around. Then Dad loses his job, and dies. Runner-up for the "Guardian" Award in 1982.

The Poacher's Son

Anderson, Rachel

Literature & Fiction

Collins

Jessy Runs Away (Colour Jets)

Young Lions Harpercollins

When his parents bring home Ha, a Vietnam War orphan, twelve-year-old Simon's world is turned upside down and he becomes more and more uncertain of his own identity.

The War Orphan

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

Set in the 1880s, this is the story of Edward, a boy who suffered from the "sacred" disease known as the falling sickness or epilepsy. It describes how people viewed epilepsy at this time, and how Edward came to terms with his disability, accepted it, and found a way forward.

Black Water

A gripping novel set in the future. It concerns the strength of a family which is on the run from the harsh, technological state which is putting electronic tags on all its citizens.

The Scavenger's Tale

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

This early novel by Rachel Anderson about the Vietnam War and its aftermath is now published for the first time as a trade paperback.

No one really knew the true story of Uncle Ho's early life before he came to Amy's family. All they knew was that he was a Vietnamese orphan, born among the bombings and terrors of war.Amy's grandmother told her the same stories that she told Uncle Ho because as Granny said 'everyone needs to know the story of her life, even if it has to be invented.'But the warland nightmares in Uncle Ho's head won't go away.

Warlands

Teen & Young Adult

Retells the French legends about the tricks used by the sly fox Renard to get food

Renard the Fox (Oxford Myths and Legends)

Bradby, David

It is 2015, after the Great Conflagration, and London has become a tourist sight for people from all over the world, coming to visit the historic Heritage Centres. These are out of bounds to people like Bedford and his sister who live in an Unapproved Temporary Dwelling and have to scavenge from skips and bins just to stay alive. Bedford begins to notice something odd about the tourists: when they arrive in the city, they are desperately ill, but when they leave they seem to have been miraculously cured. And then the Dysfuncs start disappearing. It is only when a stranger appears, terribly injured, that Bedford begins to put two and two together ...Rachel Anderson is a previous winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

When Ha arrives as part of Simon's family, the nightmares arrive too. And as Simon tries to find out about Ha and his past, he begins to uncover a war-story which is not the one he wanted to hear. Is the story Simon hears in his head his own, or does it belong to this child who his parentsnow say is his brother - Ha, the war orphan?This novel with a background in the Vietnam War is now being reissued in a smaller, mass-market paperback format.Rachel Anderson is a previous winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

Oxford Univ. Pr.

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The Poacher's Son

Jessy Runs Away (Colour Jets)

The War Orphan

Black Water

The Scavenger's Tale

The War Orphan

Warlands

Renard the Fox (Oxford Myths and Legends)

The Scavenger's Tale

The War Orphan